Monday, March 07, 2005

 

Time To Kick The Governator Right In His Steroid-Shrunken Schwarzeneggers



Like Alan Greenspan's reputation for nonpartisan fiscal stewardship, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's reputation as incorruptibly standing with the little guy and against special interests is laughably undeserved. It's high time California Democrats (who hold every statewide elective office, save one) begin to make that clear.

Gov. Ahnuld may soon overreach, as Bush is doing on Social Security, by calling on voters to approve yet another special election, at a cost of tens of millions of dollars that we don't have, to bypass the legislature and approve his version of a tightened budget. Meanwhile, however, Democrats need to point out in the press (and not in our local version of Bush's "fake press," either) that California has one of the most stringent conflict-of-interest laws in the country for elected officeholders, and begin aggressively (and publicly) investigating how Schwarzenegger is benefitting financially from his own political decisionmaking (in violation of this law).

As long as Ahnuld's going to play this game, we might as well get his uniform dirty . . .

posted by Michael 8:59 AM